Villanueva de los Caballeros

Can you build a house on rustic land?

Castilla y León allows a new house on rustic land only when a farm needs it. Otherwise it has to go in a village, or restore a building.

Ley 5/1999, art. 23.1.e. A town plan can be stricter.

Plan in force: Delimitación de Suelo Urbano (only marks the town's edge), from 1983. The region's planning viewer ↗

The national urban information system (SIU) maps the land class for 100% of the municipality.

Only the town hall can confirm it, in writing: ask for a certificado urbanístico.

Is there water?

IGME records 3 wells and boreholes in Villanueva de los Caballeros. Its depth: 110 m.

Ground: 75% low permeability, local groundwater only; 18% porous aquifer, high productivity; 6.6% porous aquifer, medium productivity.

Choosing where to drill takes a hydrogeologist.

What to watch for

• No mapped fire since 2016.
• 3.6% of the municipality lies in the 100-year flood zone; 9.6% in the 500-year one.
• 18% of the municipality is Natura 2000: new works need the region's consent.
• Not a radon zone.

Living here

• 4G reaches 100% of homes; fibre 85%. Averages for the municipality.
• Rain: 335 mm a year (1971–2000), about 321 by 2041–2070.
• Summer highs: 28.3 °C, about 32.5 °C by 2041–2070.
• Frost days: 71 a year, about 47 by 2041–2070.

Around it

Cotanes del Monte · Pozuelo de la Orden · San Pedro de Latarce · Villardefrades · Villagarcía de Campos · Urueña · Villalpando